With over 400 faculty investigating sustainability-related topics at UBC, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve curated a list of researchers with expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

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Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre; cofounder of Treenomix (a foundation of genomics knowledge; promotes forest health and sustainable forest stewardship for future generations)
Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory; Race and Racism; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Focused on global food production, climate change, and forms of war, this project draws from anticolonial...
Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; low-carbon future scenarios visualized...

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Roecker, Inge

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable forms of urban habitation

Roehr, Daniel

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sustainable communities; sustainable design; integration of living roofs as holistic system for stormwater management

Rogak, Steve

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Aerosols; atmospheric contaminants; impact on human health; concentrations of aerosols in the indoor and outdoor environments; filtration systems that do not require excessive energy consumption.; new fuel injectors and injection strategies to minimize particle formation in compression ignition engines

Rogers, Lindsay

Medicine (Vancouver)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Environmental science and environmental health where biochemical understanding can elucidate complex and often controversial global issues.

Rogers, Theresa

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Working with youth on critical literacies and arts-integrated media production in school and community settings. How youth use print and multimodal resources to engage in cultural discourse and critique. New literacies among youth in schools and among women in a remote community in Botswana. Literary theoretical perspectives in relation to contemporary adolescent literature.

Rojas Gaona, Orlando

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Supporting global sustainable development through research on the fundamental and utilization aspects of renewable resources, including lignocellulose, proteins and other biopolymers; aims to discover competitive alternatives for fossil materials.

Rosen, David

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Bioenergetics (energy requirements and expenditures) of marine mammals; root causes of population changes by investigating the interactions between the physiology of individual animals and biotic and abiotic environmental changes; conservation and management of marine resources, particularly those in Arctic region, where environmental change – including climate change and fisheries impacts – is most evident; scientific approach to measuring and ensuring the welfare of these animals.

Rowley, Sue

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Public archaeology, material culture studies, repatriation, intellectual property rights, access to cultural heritage and museums.

Ruitenberg, Claudia

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Citizenship and democracy, Gender Studies, Philosophy of education, Queer studies, Social justice, Sustainability

Russello, Michael

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science (Okanagan)
Biology
Population genomics; conservation genetics; molecular ecology; life-history evolution.

Rysanek, Adam

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Green building design, construction and operation, including the integrated technical and economic modelling of building- and community-integrated low-carbon energy systems; finding new ways to visualize, analyze and communicate building data and information

Saddler, Jack

Forestry (Vancouver)
Wood Science
Microbiology of waste water treatment; Application of fungi to upgrading and modification of forest products, pulp and paper and waste streams

Sadiq, Rehan

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Civil Engineering
Water Supply Systems; Infrastructure Management; Environmental Risk Analysis; Lifecycle Thinking; Water-Energy Nexus of Built Environment.

Saewyc, Elizabeth

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Nursing
Health issues of youth, with a particular emphasis on how stigma, violence and trauma affect adolescent health and risk behaviours, and the environmental assets and protective factors that foster resilience among vulnerable young people in spite of stigma and trauma. These populations include: sexual minority youth (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens), homeless and runaway youth, sexually abused and sexually-exploited teens, pregnant and parenting adolescents, youth in custody, immigrant youth, and indigenous young people in Canada and other countries.

Sandercock, Leonie

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Multiculturalism and cities; urban policy; integration of immigrants; cross-cultural planning; First Nations collaborative community planning

Sarfaty, Galit

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Human Rights, Corporate Sustainability

Sarra, Janis

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Climate-related financial risk and corporate governance; climate governance

Satterfield, Blair

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Use of second stream materials in construction; design and application of energy and material efficient methods for construction; generation of sophisticated but universally accessible tool sets and strategies for efficiently and sustainably building using low-impact materials and techniques

Satterfield, Terre

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Sustainable development, environmental health, First Nations; land management, social and cultural consequences of contamination

Sayer, Jeffrey

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Integrated approaches to natural resources management, landscape approaches, integrating science into natural resources decision making; Tropical forest conservation; Reconciling conservation and development in tropical forest landscapes; Forest conservation in Indonesia

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